Urgent !!!! Help , need emt info and sources

[escc1985]

i am in urgent !!! help

i have this Research Paper 5 pages long , on EMT , i cant seem to find exciting information on the subject and in need of some good sites or sources where i can get exciting info instead of just plan wiki or dull info , hope all you out there can help or forward some pages to me ... thanx you

- Erik (A Student attending an EMT Class)

 

[medic417]

EMS is a very boring job 99.9% of the time. The TV is the only place that you will see non stop action. EMS is patient care driven not adrenalin driven.

Only suggestion I have is browse sites such as this and find a few tidbits.

 

[usafmedic45]

Seriously....for future reference, tone it down a little. The huge bold font isn't going to help you get any quicker responses. If anything it makes people want to stop reading your post.

EMS is a very boring job 99.9% of the time. The TV is the only place that you will see non stop action. EMS is patient care driven not adrenalin driven.

What he said. If you want to fill your paper with "exciting" information, you're going to have to:
A. cherry pick the hell out of the profession
B. Lie

If this is for your EMT class (or any other class you are getting a grade on), I recommend against both approaches. You are working on a research paper, not for Fox News so you actually do have to be fair and balanced in your reporting. That means basing it on a little thing called "facts".

Also, may I suggest you work on your grammar and syntax before writing the paper or you are going to do poorly on the assignment regardless.

 

[medicdan]

What they said ^^^ re: approach to getting information.
Consider reading (then writing) about the history of EMS in the US, from the involvement of the NHSTA and "White Paper" to the roll-out of ALS, and rural services, then the new scope of practice and educational standards.
Or you could ride the CoEMS bandwagon and talk about different models for the provision of EMS internationally...? Or College EMS? Or Volunteer EMS? Fire-Based EMS? The list goes on...

 

[Trayos]

As a student

I recommend the honest truth. Want to be "shocking" or "different"? Place a picture of EMT's wheeling somebody away from a totaled vehicle. Then follow it up with the "boring" facts, they can be very interesting if you read into them.
Try looking at international EMS, or subsets in the US.

 

[medic417]

Wow 3 posts of the same thing.

 

[NomadicMedic]

Since you're writing a "research paper", I suggest using some scholarly articles. That is, articles that have been peer reviewed and appear in a journal. Google Scholar is a great place to find abstracts that will point you in the right direction. Wikipedia is a BAD, BAD source for anything even loosely called “research”.

And you say your topic is “EMT”. That's rather broad. Is it a paper about the job? The skills? The education required? Resuscitation by Basic level providers? Ohhh, I've got one. “Why BLS is more important than ALS in cases of multi-system trauma”

Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.